UTF-8 Support

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UTF-8 "Out of the Box"

Some hackers use multi-byte encoding to circumvent website security. phpCOIN is aware of this, so normally it will NOT support multi-byte character sets for input. This is fine if your site is in English, but not if you happen to be in, for example, Japanese or any other language requiring multi-byte character support.

phpCOIN will, however, support UTF-8 for both input and output with some minor modifications:

To enable phpCOIN v1.2.4 and lower to accept and display "special" characters that are usually encoded in UTF-8 you must manually edit source code files according to [this post] on our support forums.

To enable phpCOIN v1.2.5 to v1.3.0 to accept and display "special" characters that are usually encoded in UTF-8, you need to do three things: